{"id":418189,"date":"2025-09-12T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418189\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:19:10","slug":"manny-pacquiao-names-the-one-opponent-he-could-never-ko-he-had-the-best-chin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418189\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao Names The One Opponent He Could Never KO: &#8220;He Had The Best Chin&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/manny-pacquiao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manny Pacquiao<\/a> has faced a real who\u2019s who of boxing stars over the course of a storied 30-year career.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having turned over in 1995, the Filipino legend is still boxing now, aged 46. Back in July, he rolled back the years once more with a draw with WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/news\/pacquiao-rules-out-opponent-for-next-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and is now said to be targeting a different opponent for his next bout.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has already become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/49061554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oldest welterweight world champion in history at the age of 40 when he beat Keith Thurman in 2019<\/a>, and is the only boxer in history to win twelve world titles in eight different weight divisions, from flyweight all the way up to light middleweight.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, he has squared up to the likes of Floyd Mayweather, Ricky Hatton, Tim Bradley, Juan Manuel Marquez, Shane Mosley and many more over his 73-fight career.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Ring Magazine\u2019s Best I Ever Faced feature, Pacquiao admitted that one opponent was tougher than all the rest.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAntonio Margarito [had the best chin]. That fight was a war. It was brutal. I threw everything at him, and he not only took it but came back for more. Incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This fight took place back in 2010 for the vacant WBC super-welterweight title at the AT&amp;T Stadium in Texas. Pacquiao went into the fight shorter and lighter but still quickly imposed himself with his speed and technique.<\/p>\n<p>He beat Margarito so bad he was pleading with the referee to stop the fight, but it ended up going the distance with \u2018Pac Man\u2019 picking up a unanimous decision and scorecards of 120-108, 118-110 and 119-109.<\/p>\n<p>Margarito finished with a record of 41 wins, 8 defeats and 1 no contest, but saw the final few years of his professional career marred after a controversy regarding tampered hand wraps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao has faced a real who\u2019s who of boxing stars over the course of a storied 30-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-418189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115190822652101553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}